Nigs

From The Maze Where Realities Converge - the psychedelic encyclopedia of reality from The Ultimate Comment

Nigs is a rule which is used and kept for life in a house. Nigs comes from the Latin word Nigsius Lazius which means ‘I don’t want to move’. It has taken over the lives of many students and workers. The basic rule of nigs is that if there is a task to be done, and nobody wants to do it, a game of nigs is initiated. The last person to say nigs MUST do the task. There is no question about it.

The Rules of Nigs:

1. The last person to say nigs loses.

2. If you say nigs and come last no excuses, you must do the task.

3. If you could do without the task in question being done, do not say nigs. That will exclude you from the game. BUT! If you do play even if you don’t want it to happen, and lose, you still have to do it.

4. If it goes to a tiebreak situation (i.e. people say it last at the same time) , the last two or three people must engage in a game of Rock, Paper, Scissors – best out of three. Who loses, does the task.

5. Nigs stops at half eleven, except for the nigs your seat rule(see below)

There are many different types of nigs games played. For example:

Nigs to While You Are Standing.

The ‘while your standing’ rule is a common one. If someone stands up, a person can jump in and say for example, “While you’re standing, get me a glass of water”. The person standing, again, MUST perform this task. However, when you are about to stand, you can say “Nigs to while I am standing” and therefore, cannot get asked to do anything you don’t want to. Also stops at half eleven.

Nigs Your Seat

In a room there are always a few people who have comfortable chairs. Then there are the poor people who have the chairs that are slowly making you into a hunchback. If a person in a comfortable chair decides to get up for whatever reason, his chair can get taken by someone in a less comfortable chair. Obviously nobody wants to lose a comfortable chair, so in comes the ‘nigs your seat rule’. When you stand up you can say ‘nigs my seat’ and that means your seat is safe. This does not stop after half eleven due to the lack of comfortable seats.

General Nigs

Now that we almost have to recite a speech when we want to stand up, we came up with the idea that when we stand, the word nigs will do without all the other crap having to be said.

Examples of Nigs

Seven people are sitting in a room. There is a three seater couch, two comfy one seater chairs and two wooden, backache chairs. Karen, Efa and Mark(1) are on the couch. Mark(2) and Dan are in the one seaters. Kev and Pink are suffering on the other ones. Just a typical day….

Kev: God I’m uncomfortable.

Pink: Know how ya feel, man.

(Mark(2) gets up and goes to the toilet, Kev quickly jumps into his seat)

Kev: Yes!

Karen: While you’re standing, make me a cup of tea.

Mark(1): Oh yeah while your standing, make me an ice tea.

Mark(2): Damn! Right nigs to while you’re standing.

(Mark(2) makes tea and ice tea, then sits on wooden chair)

Efa: Hate that.

(Karen gets up to get a biscuit)

Karen: Nigs.

Pink: Damn, can’t rob her chair.

(Karen sits back down)

Dan: Does anyone want to play Halo?

Everybody: Yeah deadly…

Mark(1): Nigs on setting it up.

Mark(2): Nigs

Efa: Nigs

Dan: Nigs

Pink: Nigs

Karen & Kev: Nigs.

Karen: Gay….

Mark(1): Right. Rock paper scissors…

(Karen and Kev play rock paper scissors. First two rounds to Karen)

Kev: Dammit! I’m so bad at this!

(Kev goes to turn on Halo)

That is the power of Nigs. Do you understand? Because if you don’t get nigs, it will get you….

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